Weeks after Obama announced the end of combat operations in the Iraq War, ‘residual troops’ engaged in lethal combat reportedly for the second time over the weekend.
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Report: U.S. Troops See Combat in Iraq… Again
Posted: 13 September 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Abd al-Qadr Muhammed Jassim al-Obaidi, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, AQI, Bush Administration, COIN, Hudaiay, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, Iraqi security forces, Isam Shakar Mizher, Jason Ditz, Middle East, Obama Administration, SOFA, Timothy Williams, War on Terror
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Worst U.S. Enemy Turned ‘Kingmaker’ as Leader of ‘Only Grassoots Movement in Iraq’ (mp3)
Posted: 30 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: al-Qaeda, AntiWar radio, AQI, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Baghdad International Zone, Dawa Party, Green Zone, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Alliance, Islamic State of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, Middle East, Muqtada al-sadr, Nouri al-Maliki, Osama bin Laden, Patrick Cockburn, Sadrist Movement, Scott Horton, SOFA, Sons of Iraq, State of Law bloc, Sunni Awakening
At AntiWar Radio, Patrick Cockburn discusses the power Muqtada al-Sadr holds in still unresolved March election in Iraq, ‘Al Qaeda in Iraq’ and its distinction from Osama bin Laden’s network, the violent sectarian conditions that remain in post-Surge Iraq, the improbability of a military coup in Baghdad or another full-scale civil war and the devil’s playground of foreign powers created by the cynical political squabbles (16:56):
